#numurkah

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Mackenzie Street, Numurkah, Victoria.

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Forgotten Glory

Victorian Railways steam loco K181, on display in a local park in Numurkah (north-east Victoria)

The K class were the last steam locomotives to work regular services in the area (main line to Tocumwal and branches  to Cobram & Picola)

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Holidays 2022 - numurkah day 1

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Numurkah Station, Then & Now

What a difference between the early 70’s and today.

From a thriving station & yard, seeing multiple passenger & goods trains on most days, to just a through line seeing a couple of freights a week now.

The relatively modern station building remains but the yard tracks & freight buildings have all been removed.

Whilst the station building looks boarded up in today’s photos, the street side tells another story. The building is in everyday use – as a funeral parlour! How ironic!

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Numurkah

My home for the first 18 years of my life.

Numurkah is located on Victoria’s Goulburn Valley line, heading north from Seymour to Tocumwal, just over the border in New South Wales

The local station was the centre of my railway universe.  Luckily I had easy access. My grandfather was the local carrier, moving merchandise from the station to the local businesses. This included “parcels” that arrived on the passenger trains, along with everything from beer to the local pubs to steel and timber for local engineering & joinery businesses that arrived on the “goods”.

The photo is typical of the station on a Sunday, from the mid 60’s to the early 70’s.

In the platform road is the “Sunday Excursion Train” from Spencer Street, complete with a blue CE van, 3 BPL cars, an air-conditioned BE car, a non air-conditioned, B or W class compartment car & a B class loco. If first class was offered, it would have been in the “non-aircon” car at the front. A noisy ride behind the B!

The Sunday train was the only time we regularly saw a B class, as the Murray River bridge at Tocumwal and the branches to Picola & Cobram were both “T & lighter”.

On a Sunday there were always 3 T class locos shut down. The first behind the camera was on the Picola train, in the centre of the photo, complete with 6 wheel ZP van. The other two, adjacent to the B class, for the Monday morning Melbourne passenger train and the goods to Cobram, consists for which are stored on the southern extensions of the run-round/track 2 and track 3 respectively.

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